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...Rope That Knows Inventor: Squid Labs Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: squid-labs.com As any fire fighter or rock climber can tell you, a simple rope can save your life-as long as it doesn't fray or break without warning. Because Smart Rope is embedded with electrically conductive metal fibers, it can sense the amount of weight it is bearing and alert users to a load that is too great. A handheld receiver relays any problems to the owner with a warning message. Smart Rope can also be used for mooring boats, securing valuables or in rescue operations. Next...
...pilot takes you on knuckle-whitening maneuvers at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h. There's even a chance to engage in mock dogfights, complete with the sound of simulated gunfire and the release of plumes of smoke when you score a "hit" on an enemy aircraft. After the fray, pilots will demonstrate some of the slicker moves required in air combat, including tail slides, inverted spins and loop-the-loops, subjecting you to more eye-popping G-forces than you ever thought possible. And just before you rejoin terra firma, you'll enjoy a fly-past at 30 feet...
...strongly oppose, specifically further Bush tax cuts. However, he has been the least political of Bush’s CEA chairs—though that may not be saying much—and those who know him well say that his disposition is to remain above the partisan fray. It is crucial he does just that. When Bernanke moves just up Constitution Ave. to the Fed, he assumes a unique position deliberately designed to be insulated from the political tides of Washington. The Fed chairman should remain unpartisan, focusing on the long-run growth of the economy rather than short...
Those who envy to enter the final club fray should take heart. If the banal jabbering of the Isis’ members is any indication of the whole, then the organizations’ purported exclusivity is an imagined concept...
...even a “MobiBlu DAH.” There are other music stores, of course—Sony has their own, Napster has been rebranded from a dotcom-era law-defiant hotbed of copyright criminality into a legal market for music, and even Walmart has entered the fray. And you can play the songs from these stores on any mp3 player you’d like from Sony, Dell, or Creative—but not on your iPod. The culprit for this state of affairs is a set of proprietary technologies under the umbrella...